April 1991: Linda Tripp goes to work for the Bush
White House as a political appointee, following a
series of civil service jobs in the Department of Defense.

November-December 1992: At the recommendation of
senior Bush administration people, the Clinton transition
team hires Linda Tripp as an administrative assistant.

January-March 1993: After working initially for
Presidential aide Bruce Lindsey, Tripp is assigned to the
Office of Legal Counsel, working for Bernard Nussbaum and
sometimes for Vincent Foster.

Winter 1993: Tony Snow, a conservative columnist
on the payroll of Rupert Murdoch's Fox TV, introduces New
York City literary agent Lucianne Goldberg to Linda Tripp,
as Goldberg is seeking contracts for anti-Clinton books.

March-April 1994: The Sunday Telegraph's
Washington bureau chief, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, holds a
series of meetings with Paula Jones and her lawyers,
pressing her to file a lawsuit against the President.

April 1994: Tripp is transferred from her White
House job to a position at the Pentagon. Clinton loyalists
have already become suspicious that Tripp has been a
``mole'' for Republican Get Clinton forces. Tripp lies to
colleagues at the Pentagon that she was expelled from the
White House because she ``knew too much about
Whitewater.''

May 5, 1994: Paula Jones files her lawsuit
against Bill Clinton. She receives extensive financial
support from conservative and evangelical legal
foundations, most of them funded by Richard Mellon
Scaife.

Summer 1994: Kenneth Starr is preparing a pro
bono legal brief for women's groups supporting Paula
Jones. He is simultaneously doing work for the Landmark
Legal Foundation, one of the groups bankrolled by Mellon
Scaife.

Aug. 5, 1994: Starr is named to replace Robert
Fiske as Whitewater independent counsel. The three-judge
selection panel is headed by Appellate Court Judge David
Sentelle.

Summer 1995: Monica Lewinsky becomes an unpaid
intern in the White House. She is later given a paid job
there, answering correspondence.

July-August 1995: Tripp testifies before the
Senate Whitewater committee about events surrounding the
death of Vincent Foster.

April 17, 1996: Lewinsky is transferred to the
Pentagon.

Autumn 1996: Lewinsky meets Tripp.

November 1996: Starr begins questioning Arkansas
state troopers about Clinton's extramarital affairs,
although there is no clear mandate for this line of
investigation.

Spring 1997:Newsweek's Michael
Isakoff first meets Linda Tripp, while Isakoff is working
on the Paula Jones case. Lucianne Goldberg attends some of
the Tripp-Isakoff meetings.

August 1997: Tripp speaks to Newsweek about an
alleged sexual encounter between President Clinton and
Kathleen Willey.

Aug. 11, 1997: President Clinton's personal
attorney, Robert Bennett, attacks Tripp's credibility
after the Willey story breaks in the news, and Willey
denies the Tripp allegations.

October 1997: Tripp and Isakoff meet with
Lucianne Goldberg, in Joshua Goldberg's Washington
apartment. Tripp plays several of the Lewinsky tapes for
Goldberg.

Autumn 1997: The Rutherford Institute, which is
now representing Paula Jones, reportedly receives three
anonymous phone calls from a woman, alerting them to a
Lewinsky-Clinton ``affair.'' Earlier, an anonymous call,
also from a woman, had reportedly tipped off the
Rutherford lawyers about Katherine Willey.

Dec. 17, 1997: Lewinsky and Tripp are subpoenaed
by Jones's lawyers, to be depositioned for the upcoming
civil suit against the President.

Dec. 26, 1997: Lewinsky leaves her job at the
Pentagon.

Jan. 7, 1998: Lewinsky signs an affidavit denying
that she had had an affair with President Clinton.

Jan. 13, 1998: Tripp meets Lewinsky at
Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Pentagon City, Virginia; Tripp is
wearing a wire, with FBI agents in hiding. At this point,
Starr still has no jurisdiction to probe the Lewinsky
matter.

Jan. 16, 1998: Tripp meets Lewinsky at the
Ritz-Carlton Hotel; FBI agents grab Lewinsky and bring her
up to a hotel suite, where they try to compel her to take
immunity--without a lawyer present--and then attempt to
entrap Vernon Jordan and President Clinton's personal
secretary, Betty Currie.

The preceding article is a rough version of the article that appeared in
The Executive Intelligence Review. It is made available here with the permission of The
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The preceding article is a rough version of the article that appeared in
The Executive Intelligence Review. It is made available here with the permission of The
Executive Intelligence Review. Any use of, or quotations from, this article must attribute them
to The Executive Intelligence Review.